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...ruling on capital punishment, Brennan said, the court sometimes goes too far in trying to discern the intentions of the Constitution's 18th-century framers. He said the court should more actively interpret the law to bring about effects that benefit society...
...ruling on capital punishment, Brennan said, the court sometimes goes too far in trying to discern the intentions of the Constitution's 18th-century framers. He said the court should more actively interpret the law to bring about effects that benefit society...
Judges must use the original intent of the founding fathers as their guiding principle when they interpret the Constitution, the U.S. Solicitor General said on September 5 at a symposium in Langdell Hall entitled, "Constrasting Approaches to the interpretation of the United States Constitution...
...tendentious article, "Radicals in Conservative Garb" (ESSAY, Aug. 11), Ezra Bowen has wrenched quotations from context and twisted history to attack the importance I have attributed to recovering a jurisprudence of original constitutional meaning. In so doing, TIME has overlooked the central issue -- whether a judge or Justice should interpret the Constitution according to its text, structure and history, or may a judge or Justice set these aside in order to effect his own vision of the good society. The debate is not one of strict vs. loose construction; it is a debate over interpretation vs. noninterpretation. Your article sides...
...next stage in the process -- an attempt by American negotiators to explain to their Soviet counterparts what the letter means -- will be complicated by a similar dispute in Washington. State is trying to interpret the letter in a way that leaves the negotiators with more latitude, while Defense protests and obstructs every inch of the way. The Soviets, who have been complaining about not knowing whom to listen to in the cacophony coming out of Washington, will be all the more confused...